{"id":9261,"date":"2014-01-06T23:15:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T05:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=9261"},"modified":"2014-01-06T23:15:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T05:15:11","slug":"r-i-p-bernard-glasser-producer-of-day-of-the-triffids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=9261","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Bernard Glasser, producer of Day of the Triffids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard Glasser&#8217;s life sounds like a fable of a B-movie America gone by: the former substitute teacher at Beverly Hills High School borrowed money from his landlord and became a movie producer. His films included Return of the Fly, A Crack in the World and Day of the Triffids.<\/p>\n<p>According to the obit over at Hollywood Reporter, Glasser started out with a Three Stooges movie, then branched out:<br \/>\nWhen Glasser&#8217;s studio lease expired, he and Gold Raiders director Edward Bernds teamed on several features for Robert L. Lippert&#8217;s Regal Films, including Space Master X-7 (1958) and the sequel Return of the Fly(1959), once again starring Vincent Price. For the former&#8217;s fungal special effects, Glasser hired Norman Maurer, the son-in-law of Stooges&#8217; ringleader Moe Howard.<\/p>\n<p>    The Chicago native later partnered with producer Philip Yordanfor the 1960-62 TV adventure series Assignment: Underwaterand such sci-fi films as the chillingThe Day of the Triffids(1963), about killer plants on the loose, and Crack in the World(1965), starring Dana Andrews as a scientist who warns against deploying an atomic bomb underground.<\/p>\n<p>And then, after 20 years in the movie business, he retired in 1970 and went into real estate. But not before he gave us some thrilling B-movies. 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